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Consell Assessor del Parlament sobre Ciència i Tecnologia ( CAPCIT ). pEPTA Conference 7 September 2011 Fernando Domínguez García. Consell Assessor del Parlament sobre Ciència i Tecnologia ( CATALAN ) Advisory Board of the Parliament of Catalonia for Science and Technology ( EN ). CAPCIT.
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Consell Assessor del Parlament sobre Ciència i Tecnologia(CAPCIT) pEPTA Conference 7 September 2011 Fernando Domínguez García
Consell Assessor del Parlament sobre Ciència i Tecnologia (CATALAN) Advisory Board of the Parliament of Catalonia for Science and Technology (EN) CAPCIT
History • Composition • Nature • TA Presentation’s Index
History • Precedent: a council named CACIT (1999-2004) that assisted both the Government and the Parliament (only from 2003) • CAPCIT was set up in 2008 by the Parliament of Catalonia (through a decision of Parliament of Catalonia’s Board) > the only parliament in Spain to have a scientific and technical advisory body.
History CACIT CAPCIT
Composition • 18 members (+ 1 secretary) • 9 MPs (Speaker, two members of the Board of the Parliament of Catalonia and 6 MPs appointed by each parliamentary group) • 9 representatives from the main scientific and technical institutions of Catalonia.
April 2011 CAPCIT’s meeting CACIT’s secretary (clerk) MPs scientific and technical institutions
April 2011 CAPCIT’s meeting Catalan Public University Association (ACUP) Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC) Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI) Catalan Council for Scientific Communication (C4)
Nature • PTA Models (Technopolis Report ): • Parliamentary Committee model (Finland, France…). • Parliamentary office model (UK, Sweden, Catalonia…). • Independent institute model (Denmark, Netherlands…).
Nature • What makes CAPCIT closer to the Parliamentary Committee model? • CAPCIT is not a committee (in legal terms), but very similar. • CAPCIT is not a unit in the Catalan parliamentary structure. • CAPCIT does not produce TA.
Nature • What is CAPCIT? • It is a forum of debate between Parliament and the scientific world. • More similar to the POST Board